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Hitting up the family or friends can be one way to start that many have used. One recent survey found that nearly 40 percent of small business owners turned to family for funding needs. Fred Smith, for example, the founder of the enormously successful FedEx overnight delivery service, started the firm in 1971 with the help of a whopping $4 million from his family. Obviously, however, this isn’t something that everyone can do — in a world of growing income and wealth disparity, a lot of worthy would-be-entrepreneurs are getting left out, and that’s neither fair nor good for the economy. But if you think there is some spare cash sloshing around out there in your network, give it a try. If your idea for wealth creation is as good as you believe, then why not circulate it among loved ones first? (But on the other hand, don’t forget that money obligations are something that can separate friends faster than a sneeze in a packed elevator.)